-Their keepers--How
attired--The herb antipathetic to hippopotami--How
discovered--Experiment with the young beast--Antipathetic solution
keeps animals away from cities--They love fresh-water rivers--The
Aoe waters prejudicial to man--Mode of rearing
Hippopotami--Precautions adopted--Why they have not been able to
rear animal in Western Europe--Recommendations--Habits of the
animal--The hippopotami--dance--How the young one is separated from
the mother--How a hippopotamus is removed from the herd--The food
of the hippopotamus in general

XLVI.--WILD ANIMALS.

The Serpent--The Boa--Professors to examine medicinal and other
properties--Modes of capturing wild beasts--Huntsmen--The iron-work
net--The watch-hut--The bait--Dead animals not allowed in the
city--Habits of the tiger--THE TIGER AND THE CHILD--THE UNICORN

XLVII.--THE SUN.

The palace--Communication with auxiliary tower--Observatory--STAR
INSTRUMENT constructed--Secrets revealed--Inhabitants and
atmospheres of the stars differ--Invisible beings--The SUN-OCEAN,
Mountains, and Continents--Winds--Attracted by the heat--Brilliancy
increased by reflection--Every planet has electricity sympathetic
or antipathetic--Different appearance in Montalluyah--Fixed
stars--Comets--Overflowings of the waters--Waters in
space--Conclusion

INTRODUCTION.

By introducing the reader to "Another World," the Editor does not lead
him into a region to which the Earth has no affinity. The Planet to
which the following fragments refer not only belongs to the same solar
system as our own, but also presents like physical aspects. In it, as
here, are to be found land and water--mountains, rivers, seas, lakes,
hills, valleys, ravines, cataracts alternating with each other; though
in consequence of more potent electrical agencies the contrasts between
these various objects are frequently abrupt and decided to a degree to
which we can here offer no comparison. The other world about to be
described is, in fact, essentially another Earth--widely differing,
indeed, from ours in its details, but still subjected to the same
natural laws. Its inhabitants, like devout persons here, look forward
with reverent feeling towards the abode of the blest. To a purely
spiritual or angelic region these fragments do not relate.

The name of "Montalluyah," which more immediately belongs to t